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title: "Ankit Kumar - SDE 2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankit Kumar, SDE2 Android @Uber, Ex - Phonepe, GoTo based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and gemini. Explore public work links including github and medium."
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# Ankit Kumar on Tal

## Headline

SDE2 Android @Uber, Ex \- Phonepe, GoTo

## About

Senior Android Engineer building and scaling high\-impact consumer experiences across product and platform systems\. I work end\-to\-end — from architecture design to production rollout — focusing on shipping measurable business impact through strong engineering execution\. Open source \- https://github\.com/pseudoankit/ Blogs \- https://medium\.com/@pseudoankit • Leading large\-scale feature revamps and UX migrations • Building scalable mobile architecture and platform frameworks • Driving experimentation and conversion improvements • Performance optimization and ANR reduction • Production monitoring, rollouts, and observability • Cross\-team collaboration with Product, Backend, and Data

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

mcp

notebooklm

notion

## Work experience

SDE 2 at Uber, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer \- Android at PhonePe, Aug 2024 \- Dec 2024 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on Insurance Section\. Built a sdk to generate app side network client by pulling off api contract from backend\.

Software Engineer 2 \- Android at Rapido, Sep 2022 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Domain : Monetization \(Ads & Discovery SDK\), Customer Experience & Retention, Design System, Code Quality, Architecture, PR Reviews, App Performance, App Startup\. As the key maintainer of the Customer Android app, I owned end\-to\-end feature delivery, cross\-team collaboration, production monitoring, app rollouts, and mentorship\. Led multiple initiatives to improve app startup, performance, code quality and scalability\. Reduced map load time by 70% down to less than 1 second\. Reduced app startup time by 15%\. Reduced frame rendering time by 10%\. Led the creation and maintenance of the Design System \(UI Toolkit\), resulting in a 20% reduction in development effort\. Fixed ads sdk architecture, reduced integration time by 90% Developed abstractions and SDKs to enhance developer productivity\. Addressed critical issues such as memory leaks, strict mode, ANRs, crashes, and compose performance\. Implemented coding guidelines, added lint checks, and conducted thorough PR reviews to ensure high quality standards\.

Software Engineer \- Android at Tokopedia, Oct 2021 \- Aug 2022 · 11 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Maintained ads section of Tokopedia android app Revamped Ads landing page with better visibility on traffic of seller's ad Added section that helped sellers to create ad for shop Increased unit test coverage from 32% to 82 % Migrated RxJava to coroutines

SDE Intern at MeetApp, Apr 2021 \- Sep 2021 · 5 mo, Mohali

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, MRSTPU

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/ankitk77
- medium: https://medium\.com/@ankitk77

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